The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18
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ANOTHER GOOD MAN GONE WRONG.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 16.-Stewart
Jackson, President of the Despatch
= Transfer Company, of this city, has
J absconded, leaving several personal
friends and relatives in the lurch tC
the extent of 81, 900. He obtained
most of this by borrowing money or
the stock of the company at its face
value. A woman is said to be at the
bottom of the trouble. Jackson is a
married man, and has been, hitherto, a
prominent and reputable citizen.
COUNTERFErrER ARRESTED AT ABB
LENE.
ABILENE, Kas., Aug. I6.-Sheriff
Miller tonight arrested in this city, f.
G. Burnett, Rock Island grader, for
passing $40 counterfeit gold piece.
AN ABSCONDER's CONFESSION.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Richard Sea-
man Scott, who absconded with $780,
600 that belonged to the Manhattan
| Bank, of which he had been an en-
| ploye, in 1885, and about whose dis
| appearance and whereabouts there was
such profound mystery, has made a
confession before Consul General
been instituted in the Supreme Court
against John r. Dunn, SCOTS col
league, for the recovery of $40, 600
The documents Included inthis case
embrace an affidavit by the defauiter
which is statement of the
history of the case, but is in
truth a confession of his theft.
Scott. according to the complaint,
| was for twenty years trusted en-
plOye of the Manhatton Bank to June,
1885, In the latter part of his service
| he was the paying teller of the bank,
which is located at No. 40 Wall Street.
| Most of the time he had in his custody
| nearly million dollars. On June 1st,
1885, he abscOnded with $3.50, 600, which
he never returned. The public has
never heard from him since that time
until to-day, when this suit was made
known. He is now in London where
he has been since September, 1885. 1t
now is shown that John r. Dunn is a
bigger rascal than Scott, and was partly
the cause of the latter forgetting
his duty. On Monday Stern and
Myers, as counsel for the
bank, obtained an order from
Judge Donohue for the arrest of Dunn
in the suit against him. AT o'clock
in the afternoon of that day Dunn was
arrested by the officers of the Sheriff at
his stock-brokerage office, No. So New
Street. Dunn for many years was a
practicing lawyer in this city, and at
one time had a desk in the Office of
Ex-Judge w. S. Fullerton. The last
few year she has been in the brokerage
business. In the complaint it is
charged that Dunn got the money out
of Scott; that he was the guilty party;
that as he controlled and governed
Scott, induced him to steal the money.
The principal foundation for the suit
is on affidaVItS by Relatives of the
embeZZler, and the principal one of
these by Scott himself. 1t
is vOluminous and was drawn up in
the presence of and acknowledged by
United States Consul-General Waller
at London, June 4. In it Scott states
that at various times prior to June 1,
1885, he extracted sums of money from
the safe which aggregated about S1O,-
600. This he had lost in speculation on
the ''street." 1t was through Dunn'S
persuasion that he took the large
amount. Dunn advised him to take
all he could, million if possible, say
ing that the more he took the less
liable he would be to punishment. On
the evening of the day Scott took
$3.50, 900 he met Dunn in Central Park
and gave him $40, 600, keeping 900
to carry himself to Canada and
afterwards to England, Scott says
that Dunn pursuaded him to leave |
S140, 600 with him for safe keeping. |
Dunn is a cousin of Scott s wife. Scott |
took passage for Europe in September,
1885. He has been in London ever
since. His wife joined him in May
1886. Scott correspondent with Dunn
and Mrs. Jennie Searles, his sister-in-
law, from London. He had received
there money amounting to $4,000. In
1886 attempts at a compromise were
made by Scott, various sums being
mentioned. In December, 1886, he
asked the bank to give him general
release for $50, 600. 1t is said the bank
accepted this offer. He wrote Dunn
telling him to get ready to pay that
sum. Dunn replied in January, 1887,
that he had lost the money. Then
came the crises, and these proceedings
were instituted. Dunn had written
that he had been unfortunate in specu-
lations. He said that at one time he
had been long on 1,000, 900 bushels of
until he had lost all. He started on
stocks, but with the same result. In
this letter to Scott he wrote:
Probably about the time this letter
reaches you l shall have committed
suicide"
In another he said he had decided to
stay his hand and await his fate.
Mrs. Scott started for New York inn
mediately. She and her sister, Mrs.
Searles, had numerous interviews
with Dunn, but the money was not
forthcoming. He told a penitent
story, but it was diseredited. He
showed Mrs. Scott accounts current
with brokers. He showed them to Mrs.
SearleS, but neither could understand
them. Mrs. Searles asked to be per-
mitted to show them to her husband.
Dunn was not averse to this but never
gave them to her to allow Mr.. Searles
TO see them. Dunn wrote letter in
March 1887, to Mrs. Searles. 1t was
story of repentance and he denied any
intent to steal. When Dunn was ar
rested he stood at the ticker in his Of
flee. He was calm and reserved. He
was taken before Sheriff Grant and
told that he would have to get bail in
the sum of SI50,000. In default of
this he was taken to Ludlow Street
Jail. He is 80 years old, a bachelor
and lived in Brooklyn. There is an in
dictment against Scott, but he cannot
be eXtradicted. He is AZ years old.
ROMANS OUTLAWS IN COURT.
LOUISVILLE, Aug. I6.-After a long
wait the Rowan Circuit Court has at
last taken up for trial the cases of +.
T. and Allie w. Young for conspiracy
to kill H. w. Logan. The next case
then will be that of either Perry or
Hiram Pigman, the men who have
been indicted for the killing of the no
torious Craig Tolliver and his bench
men. The trial of the YOungs has not
caused that flame of excitement which
was expected, and there appears now
to be no cause for apprehension so long
| as the state guard remains.
MURDERED AND ROBBED.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 16.-A CONNER
cial-GaZette's New Albany, Ind,
| special reports horrible murder and
4 robbery last night near Fredericksburg,
Washington County. John Herlet and
Daniel Wynenger, longtime enemies,
met on the turnpike, renewed their
quarrel, and finally ended it by Herlet
stabbing Wynenger to death with a
huge butcher-knife. Herlet then